Posts Tagged ‘Copenhagen’

Well, the Tory manifesto promised to give us the 'greenest government in our history' and it seems that that is what we are going to get, if not in the way it intended. For, as the formerly 'nasty p...
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Yet another dispiriting talkfest, or one of the most significant meetings so far this century? It is, as Zhou Enlai said of the effects of the French Revolution, far too early to tell. Indeed the me...
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Reporting the increasingly bitter row over climate change these days is a bit like watching one of those old Westerns, where a wagon train is rattling through dangerous terrain, surrounded by skirmi...
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The most far-reaching effect of Scott Brown's upset victory in the Massachusetts senatorial election is likely to be on the world's attempts to combat global warming. It will make it very much harder...
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Here's something surprising. Normally after a fiasco like the Copenhagen climate summit, governments do two things. They blame other countries for the mess and they run away from the issue and concent...
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Here's something good that just might come out of the Copenhagen debacle. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has accepted that the sclerotic and disfunctional UN negotiating system that was partly resp...
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Quasimodo in Number 10, hunched, scowling over his desk, has devised yet another plan to police, to increase surveillance, to indulge his obsession with extending his short-lived control over as many ...
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"Haven’t slept since Wed night," an exhausted Ed Miliband tweeted on Friday evening. Then, four hours later: "trying to work out if i can sleep tonight". And the next morning: "No sleep and still on...
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So the Copenhagen conference has provided endless opportunities for cynics like myself to say “I told you so”. But does the lack of a heavyweight deal mean that we have missed out on genuine subst...
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@350: A tweet cannot express the level of frustration & disappointment I feel w/Obama right now. So much for change. #cop15 @TheEcoist: White House Announces Completely Meaningless Agreement in Cl...
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